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Dec 3, 2025
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.top websites in the world

The world’s most-visited websites are dominated by a handful of platforms: Google leads with roughly 105.6–105.64 billion monthly visits (Semrush / data republished by Exploding Topics) while other li...

Jan 15, 2026
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In Twitters policy it states that it will only report posting and sharing CSAM to the NCMEC and not liking, bookmarking or replying. What is Twitter required to submit about a passive viewer?

Twitter/X publicly says it reports instances of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — principally the content and accounts that post or share that material — to the National Center for Missing and Expl...

Dec 17, 2025
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Facebook messenger, Meta and chat control 2.0. Will they use retroactive scanning?

Meta will start using interactions with its “Meta AI” features for personalization and ads from December 16, 2025, but the company and multiple press outlets say this applies to AI interactions, not t...

Jan 27, 2026

Does meta direct scanning of decade old messages?

does not routinely “direct scan” or harvest the contents of end‑to‑end encrypted private DMs from or encrypted Messenger chats to train its AI, and the company says private chats are not used for AI t...

Feb 6, 2026

What is the provenance of the @XERIAS_X watermark and previous posts attributed to that account?

Evidence points squarely to the “.com” screenshot watermark being introduced as a platform-level experiment inside X’s iOS app — a branding move reported in multiple tech outlets and analysis pieces —...

Dec 17, 2025

How far back can facebook retroactivley scan?

Meta’s public statements and recent reporting show two clear limits: Facebook does not let users “retroactively” change the legal terms they accepted when they joined (posting a private notice doesn’t...